Vaibhav Sooryavanshi headlines a contingent of Rajasthan Royals players named across teams for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026, which begins on Saturday.
The 19th edition of India's premier domestic men's T20 cricket competition will feature 38 teams across the Elite and Plate divisions, with the final scheduled for December 6.
The 15-year-old Sooryavanshi will captain Bihar in their opening two matches against Saurashtra on November 14 and Railways on November 16.
It will be his first official captaincy assignment after serving as Bihar's vice-captain last season, when he became the youngest centurion in the tournament's history.
The youngster enters SMAT 2026 after a remarkable year in which he scored 776 runs to win the IPL 2026 Orange Cap and made his international debut for India.
Meanwhile, left-arm pacer Sushant Mishra will represent defending champions Jharkhand after finishing as the joint-highest wicket-taker in last year's competition with 22 scalps in 11 matches.
Jharkhand, who won their maiden title last season, are placed in Elite Group A alongside Chandigarh, who have named experienced Royals pacer Sandeep Sharma in their squad.
Yudhvir Singh and Brijesh Sharma will represent Jammu and Kashmir in Elite Group B, which also features Sooryavanshi's Bihar and Punjab.
Punjab have named Royals all-rounder Emanjot Singh Chahal, who recently struck his second century of the Ranji Trophy 2026-27 season, scoring 122 off 150 balls against Andhra Pradesh.
Ravi Singh will represent Railways in the same group. The Royals wicketkeeper-batter scored 218 runs in seven matches at a strike rate of 173.01 in last season's Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Elite Group D will feature three Royals across different teams. Tushar Deshpandewill turn out for two-time champions Mumbai, Shubham Dubey will represent Vidarbha and Aman Rao has been selected by Hyderabad.
Meanwhile, left-arm wrist-spinner Vignesh Puthur will represent Kerala in Elite Group C under the captaincy of Sanju Samson.
Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag has not been named in Assam's squad as he continues his recovery from shoulder surgery.
The 32 Elite teams have been divided into four groups of eight, with the top two from each group progressing to the Super League. The eight qualifying teams will be split into two groups, with the group winners meeting in the final on December 6.
The six-team Plate competition will conclude on November 24.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026 squads: Full teams and players list
Andhra Pradesh cricket team: Ricky Bhui (c), Ashwin Hebbar, Marthala Dhanush, SDNV Prasad, Shaik Rasheed, Saurabh Kumar, T Bharath, Satyanarayana Raju, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Bailapudi Yeswanth, M Hemanth Reddy, Seeram Rahul, Sai Rahul, KS Narasimha Raju, Revanth Reddy, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Munish Verma.
Assam cricket team: Denish Das (c), Saahil Jain, Sibsankar Roy, Avinav Choudhury, Roshan Alam, Akash Sengupta, Ayushman Malakar, Mrinmoy Dutta, Mukhtar Hussain, Bishal Saha, Pradyun Saikia, Bhargab Pratim Lahkar, Ayush Agarwal, Rohit Sen, Jitumoni Kalita, Abdul Ajij Kuraishi.
Baroda cricket team: Krunal Pandya (c), Atit Sheth (vc), Deepak Hooda, Shivalik Sharma, Shashwat Rawat, Amit Pasi, Jitesh Sharma, Bhanu Pania, Mahesh Pithiya, Parikshit Patidar, Hemant Punde, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Dhruv Patel, Safvan Patel.
Bengal cricket team: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Sudip Gharami, Yuvraj Keswani, Aditya Purohit, Abishek Porel, Shakir Gandhi, Karan Lal, Pradipta Pramanik, Sourav Halder, Prayas Ray Barman, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kanishk Seth, Sayan Ghosh, Syed Irfan Aftab, Akhilesh Yadav, Rishabh Chaudhary, Shashank Singh.
Bihar cricket team (first two matches): Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (c), Suraj Kashyap (vc), Alok Kumar, Ayush Loharuka, Altamash Ashraf, Param Kumar Singh, Anmol Kumar, Ritwik Raj, Mayank Kumar, Raghvendra Pratap, Ashish Kumar, Vasudev Pratap Singh, Mohammad Izhar, Amod Yadav, Prashant Singh, Nawaz Khan, Himanshu Singh.
Chandigarh cricket team: Shivam Bhambri (c), Manan Vohra, Nehal Pajni, Arjun Azad, Sanyam Saini, Arush Bhandari, Nikhil Thakur, Bhagminder Lather, Raman Bishnoi, Nikhil Kumar, Hardik Chaudhary, Sandeep Sharma, Rohit Dhanda, Jagjeet Sandhu, Chiragvir Dhindsa.
Chhattisgarh cricket team: Vikalp Tiwari (c), Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare, Aayush Pandey, Dev Aditya Singh, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Prateek Yadav, Rahul Pradhan, Rudra Dehari, Sangeet Soni, Sandeep Warrier, Shashank Chandrakar, Shubham Agarwal, Sourab Majumdar.
Delhi cricket team: Ayush Badoni (c), Priyansh Arya, Sarthak Ranjan, Yash Dhull, Ayush Doseja, Tejasvi Dahiya, Anuj Rawat, Himmat Singh, Mayank Rawat, Keshav Dabas, Suyash Sharma, Digvesh Rathi, Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav, Simarjeet Singh.
Goa cricket team: Abhinav Tejrana (c), Suyash Prabhudessai, Deepraj Gaonkar, Azaan Thota, Manthan Khutkar, Lalit Yadav, Yash Kasvankar, Darshan Misal, Vikash Singh, Shivendra Bhujbal, Rajashekhar Harikant, Vasuki Koushik, Shubham Tari, Ruthvik Naik, Felix Alemao, Heramb Parab, Ishaan Gadekar.
Gujarat cricket team: TBA
Haryana cricket team: TBA
Himachal Pradesh cricket team(first three matches): Pukhraj Mann (c), Nehal Wadhera, Aryaman Dhaliwal, Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Arpit Guleria, Harshit Sandal, Ayush Jamwal, Jitender Rana, Hritik Kalia, Rahul Chauhan, Rohit Kumar, Mridul Surroch, Vaibhav Kalta, Vaibhav Sharma.
Hyderabad cricket team: CV Milind (c), Tanmay Agarwal, P Aman Rao, M Abhirath Reddy (vc), K Himateja, Rahul Radesh, M Sai Pragnay Reddy, Bhavesh Seth, Ganesh Gadugu, Tanay Thyagarajan, Pranav Varma, A Ved Reddy, CTL Rakshann Readdi, Ajay Dev Goud, Nishant Saranu, Rahul Buddhi, Y Harshit Sai.
Jammu and Kashmir cricket team: Shubham Khajuria (c), Qamran Iqbal, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Kawalpreet Singh, Dikshant Kundal, Rydham Sharma, Sahil Lotra, Vanshaj Sharma, Abid Mushtaq, Sunil Kumar, Yudhvir Singh, Umran Malik, Brijesh Sharma, Lone Nasir Muzaffar.
Jharkhand cricket team: Anukul Roy (c), Shikhar Mohan (vc), Pankaj Kumar, Robin Minz, Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Amit Kumar, Sushant Mishra, Rajandeep Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Md Kounain Quraishi, Pratyush Kumar, Harsh Raj, Pratik Ranjan, Shubh Sharma.
Karnataka cricket team (first three matches): Ravichandran Smaran (c), Rohan Patil, Luvnith Sisodia, Manish Pandey, Karun Nair, Abhinav Manohar, Shikhar Shetty, Manvanth Kumar, Praveen Dubey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Vidwath Kaverappa, Abhilash Shetty, Krishnan Shrijith, Aneeshwar Gautam, Rithesh Bhatkal.
Kerala cricket team: Sanju Samson (c), Rohan S Kunnummal, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Ahammed Imran, Govind Dev D Pai, Krishna Devan R J, Vishnu Vinod, Salman Nizar, Akhil Scaria, Nikhil M, Vignesh Puthur, Biju Narayanan N, Karthik B Nair, Vaisakh Chandran, KM Asif, MD Nidheesh, Sharafuddeen NM, Jalaj Saxena.
Madhya Pradesh cricket team: Rajat Patidar (c), Ankush Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Harsh Gawli, Aniket Verma, Ritik Tada, Apoorv Dwivedi, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Shivam Shukla, Shivang Kumar, Avesh Khan, Tripuresh Singh, Rahul Batham, Mangesh Yadav.
Maharashtra cricket team: Prithvi Shaw, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshin Kulkarni, Sahil Parakh, Rahul Tripathi, Suraj Shinde, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Tanay Sanghvi, Vicky Ostwal, Kiran Chormale, Ranjit Nikam, Pradeep Dadhe, Rushikesh Sonavne, Vivek Shelar, Hitesh Walunj, Prashant Solanki, Siddhesh Veer.
Mizoram cricket team: Jehu Anderson (c), Joseph Lalthankhuma, Kuldip Yadav, J Biakthanpuia, Lalhruaizela, F Lalmuanzuala, B Lalnunfela, Lalrempuia, Marty Lalrinhlua, Manendar Singh, Sahil Sharma, Sumit Lama, Chinmay Sutar, Khiangte Vanrotlinga.
Mumbai cricket team: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Divyansh Saxena, Suved Parkar, Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Sairaj Patil, Shivam Dube, Atharva Ankolekar, Shams Mulani, Maxwell Swaminathan, Tushar Deshpande, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Avasthi, Sylvester D'Souza, Hardik Tamore.
Odisha cricket team: Swastik Samal (c), Subhranshu Senapati, Om T Munde, Gaurav Choudhury, Adhitya Rout, Kartik Biswal, Abhishek Yadav, Soumya Ranjan Biswal, Aashirwad Swain, Sourav Gouda, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Soumya Ranjan Lenka, Ninad Rathva, Lalit Yadav, Debabrata Pradhan, Badal Biswal, Vageesh Sharma, Pradeep Pradhan, Vimal Kumar, Omkar Mohanty.
Puducherry cricket team: Pugazhendi Akash, Aman Khan, Shashank Singh, Raghav Goyal, Adil Tunda, Anugrah Latwal, Bhanu Anand, Vedant Bhardwaj, Aditya Chauhan, Gaurav Yadav, Prithvi Khanna, R Nithiyananda, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Prasad Pawar, Prannay Singh, Ramamoorthy Ragavan, Gautam Shastry, Shiva Subash, Sagar Trivedi, Sagar Udeshi, Vijai Raja.
Punjab cricket team: Ramandeep Singh (c), Prabhsimran Singh, Umesh Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Uday Saharan, Salil Arora, Sanvir Singh, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Vishwa Nath Pratap, Vihaan Malhotra, Sahil Bhaskar, Kartik Chadda, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Sukhdeep Singh Bajwa, Jashan Jindal, Krish Bhagat.
Railways cricket team: Mohammad Saif (c), LR Chethan, Ravi Singh, Atal Bihari Rai, Eshaan Goyal, Jamshed Alam, Kritagya Singh, Kunal Yadav, Akshat Pandey, Pradhyumn Parikh, Mohit Raut, Garv Sangwan, Toufik Uddin Mondal, Zubair Ali.
Rajasthan cricket team: Deepak Chahar (c), Manav Suthar (vc), Ajay Raj Singh, Kartik Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Ramniwas Golada, Rohan Rajbahar, Abhijeet Tomar, Himanshu Singh Rana, Honey Pratap Singh, Kunal Singh Rathore, Mahipal Lomror, Mukul Choudhary, Himanshu Nehra, Abhishek Mund.
Saurashtra cricket team: Jaydev Unadkat (c), Harvik Desai, Jay Gohil, Prerak Mankad, Vishvarajsinh Jadeja, Sammar Gajjar, Ruchit Ahir, Chetan Sakariya, Parth Bhut, Harvansh Singh Pangalia, Siddhant Rana, Krains Fuletra, Yuvraj Chudasama, Luckyraj Vaghela, Devang Karamta, Ankur Panwar.
Tamil Nadu cricket team: R Sai Kishore (c), Tushar Raheja, VP Amith Sathvik, N Jagadeesan, B Sachin, C Andre Siddarth, S Rithik Easwaran, M Shahrukh Khan, Sunny Sandhu, R Rajkumar, T Natarajan, Gurjapneet Singh, G Kishoor, M Siddharth, Varun Chakaravarthy, V Athisayaraj Davidson.
Tripura cricket team (first four matches): Manisankar Murasingh (c), Bikram Kumar Das, Sridam Paul, Subham Sutradhar, Arindam Barman, Mandeep Singh, Lakshay Thareja, Bikram Debnath, Saurabh Das, Abhijit Sarkar (vc), Saruk Hossain, Danveer Singh, Sentu Sarkar, Arka Prabha Sinha, Viki Saha, Sandip Sarkar, Parvez Sultan, Chiranjit Paul.
Uttar Pradesh cricket team: Karan Sharma (c), Abhishek Goswami, Swastik Chikara, Aryan Juyal, Madhav Kaushik, Sameer Rizvi, Shivam Mavi, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohsin Khan, Yash Dayal, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaradhya Yadav, Arnav Baliyan, Yash Garg, Divyansh Joshi, Siddarth Yadav.
Uttarakhand cricket team: Kunal Chandela (c), Avneesh Sudha, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Agnivesh Ayachi, Janmejay Joshi, Akash Madhwal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aarav Mahajan, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Kandpal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Ravinder Negi, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi, Vijay Sharma.
Vidarbha cricket team: Atharva Taide (c), Aman Mokhade, Danish Malewar, Shubham Dubey, R Samarth, Varun Bisht, Yash Kadam, Yash Rathod, Adhyayan Daga, Vedant Jajoo, Parth Rekhade, Nachiket Bhute, Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Mandar Ghodmare, Saurabh Dubey, Abhishek Agrawal.
Arunachal Pradesh cricket team: Neelam Obi (c), Techi Neri, Nabam Tempol, Kamsha Yangfo, Biki Kumar, Chandan Kumar Singh, Darge Bagra, Techi Doria, Licha Jhon, Salil Malhotra, Penjor Mangal, Nabam Kama, Myendung Singpho, Likha Sonia, Yab Niya.
Manipur cricket team: Pheiroijam Jotin, Ahmed Shah, Mandingbam Andyroshan, Bidash Chingakham, LM Keishangbam, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, Kiran Laishram, L Kishan Singha, Yumnam C Nganba, Prafullomani Singh, Rex Rajkumar, Sultan Karim, Karanjit Yumnam.
Meghalaya cricket team: TBA
Nagaland cricket team: TBA
Services cricket team: Arun Bamal, Arjun Sharma, Arun Kumar, Irfan Khan, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Mohit Kumar, Nakul Sharma, Kunwar Pathak, Raj Bahadur, Shivam Tiwari, Amit Shukla, Sufiyan Alam, Suraj Vashisht, Vishal Gaur.
Sikkim cricket team: Lee Yong Lepcha (c), Ashish Thapa, Ankur Malik, Gurinder Singh, Kranthi Kumar, Satyajeet Bachhav, Abishek Kumar, Amit Rajera, Pranesh Chettri, Ingsho Limboo, Robin Limboo, Md Saptulla, Parth Palawat, Saurav Prasad, Palzor Tamang.
